: Writing New Archaeological Narratives: Indigenous North America

ByStephen W. Silliman

Writing new archaeological narratives of
Indigenous North America requires revisiting the ways that archaeologists think,
write, dig, analyze, interpret, and present
their information to colleagues, students,
descendant communities, and the general
public. As developed throughout this volume, postcolonialism encourages this revisiting, in part as a political project of decolonization and in part as a refinement of our
conceptual and practical tools for writing
better histories and doing better anthropologies. My goal in this chapter is to relay
how archaeologists, both Indigenous and
non-Indigenous, have been crafting and
will continue to craft new narratives of Native North America thanks to the contributions of postcolonial thinking.